Palais de Glace

Artist Jules Chéret (French, 1836 - 1932)

Date1893

MediumColor-lithographed poster

DimensionsImage: 94 × 34 1/8 inches (238.76 × 86.68 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Dillon

Object number64-21/1

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DescriptionIn large blue letters at top "Palais de Glace"; bottom, "Champs Elysées". Center, seen from rear, tall blonde skater in red costume with flying-caped shoulders; open at rear, showing black dress with blue creases; plumed red hat, long white fur piece at neck cascading toward lower right margin; looks backward over left shoulder, left hand on hip, right raised above head; blue background; in blue crachis, lower right female skater approaching front, beyond her two top-hatted figures, seen in part.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Paris: A Collage, University of Kansas, Student Union Gallery, Lawrence, KS, January 25–February 13, 1976, no. 15, as Palais de Glace.

Art on the Avenues: Posters from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 16–July 28, 1996, no. 4, as Palais de Glace.

Provenance

George Chaffee (1922–2013) and Joan (née Kent, 1925–2009) Dillon, Kansas City, MO, by June 1, 1964;

Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1964.

Published References

Imprimerie Chaix, ed., Les Maitres de l’Affiche 5 (1900): 49.

Jeanne Stump and Howard Collinson, Paris: A Collage, exh. cat. (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1976), unpaginated.

Lucy Broido, The Posters of Jules Chéret (New York: Dover Publications, 1980), 363.

Art on the Avenues: Posters from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 3, as Palais de Glace.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460–1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 295, as Palais de Glace.

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